AFHF Member Authors

AIR and SPACE HISTORY
by AFHF MEMBERS

AFHF members have always been passionate about history. Since the Foundation was created in 1953, members have written on a myriad of subjects—technology, biography, operations, culture, strategy and much, much more. Once you view this list, you will get the idea. Our Foundation membership not only participates in our service history, they document that history in important and lasting ways. ENJOY!

If you are a member and did not submit your published works for inclusion in this list, send book cover image, any links for the book, and your name to xd@afhistory.org, we will work them in during the next revision cycle.

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    AFHF Member Authors

    Ken Alnwick and Thomas Fabyanic
    Warfare in Lebanon

    Ken Alnwick and Thomas Fabyanic

    Dick Anderegg and Todd P. Harmer
    The Shootdown of Trigger Four

    Dick Anderegg and Todd P. Harmer

    Dick Anderegg
    Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade After Vietnam

    Dick Anderegg

    Dick Anderegg
    The Ash Warriors

    Dick Anderegg

    Larry Benson
    Quieting the Boom: The Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and the Quest for Quiet Supersonic Flight

    Larry Benson

    Dr. John McLucas, Larry Benson and Ken Alnwick
    Reflections of a Technocrat-Managing Defense, Air, and Space Programs During the Cold War

    Dr. John McLucas, Larry Benson and Ken Alnwick

    Eileen Bjorkman
    The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat

    Eileen Bjorkman

    Eileen Bjorkman
    Unforgotten in the Gulf of Tonkin: A Story of the U.S. Military's Commitment to Leave No One Behind

    Eileen Bjorkman

    Ed Cobleigh
    The First Fighter Pilot

    Ed Cobleigh

    Ed Cobleigh
    Fly With the Falcon: Love, Loss, Liberty

    Ed Cobleigh

    Ed Cobleigh
    The Pilot: Fighter Planes and Paris

    Ed Cobleigh

    Ed Cobleigh
    And I Lived to Tell the Tales: The Life of a Fighter Pilot

    Ed Cobleigh

    Ed Cobleigh
    War for the Hell of It: A Fighter Pilot's View of Vietnam

    Ed Cobleigh

    Thomas M. Culbert
    Pan Africa Across the Sahara in 1941 with Pan Am

    Thomas M. Culbert

    Dik A. Daso
    Architects of American Air Supremacy: General Hap Arnold and Dr. Theodore von Kármán

    Dik A. Daso

    Dik A. Daso
    U.S. Air Force: A Complete History

    Dik A. Daso

    Dik A. Daso
    Americas Hangar - Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

    Dik A. Daso

    Dik A. Daso
    The Price of Freedom: Americans at War

    Dik A. Daso

    Dik A. Daso
    New World Vistas. Looking toward the Future, Learning from the Past

    Dik A. Daso

    Dik A. Daso
    Origins of Airpower: Hap Arnold’s Early Career in Aviation Technology, 1903-1935

    Dik A. Daso

    Dik A. Daso
    Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower

    Dik A. Daso

    Dik A. Daso
    Doolittle: Aerospace Visionary

    Dik A. Daso

    John L. Deuble, Jr.
    An Illustrated History of the 1st Aero Squadron at Camp Furlong: Columbus, New Mexico 1916-1917

    John L. Deuble, Jr.

    John T. Farquhar
    Remove Before Flight - Core Readings in Air, Space, and Cyberspace

    John T. Farquhar

    John T. Farquhar
    Kick the Tires and Light the Fires

    John T. Farquhar

    Vic Flintham
    Combat Codes: a Full Explanation and Listing of British, Commonwealth and Allied Air Force Unit Codes since 1938

    Vic Flintham

    Vic Flintham
    Truculent Tribes, Turbulent Skies – The RAF In The Near And Middle East 1919-1939

    Vic Flintham

    Vic Flintham
    Close Call: RAF Close Air Support in the Mediterranean Volume II

    Vic Flintham

    Vic Flintham
    Close Call: RAF Close Air Support in the Mediterranean Volume I

    Vic Flintham

    Thomas E. Griffith Jr.
    MacArthur's Airman

    Thomas E. Griffith Jr.

    William P. Head and David R. Mets
    Plotting a True Course: Reflections of USAF Strategic Attack Theory and Doctrine the Post World War II Experience

    William P. Head and David R. Mets

    William P. Head
    War From Above the Clouds

    William P. Head

    William P. Head
    Every Inch a Soldier: Augustine Warner Robins and the Building of U.S. Airpower

    William P. Head

    William P. Head
    Night Hunters: The AC-130s and Their Role in U.S. Airpower

    William P. Head

    William P. Head
    Shadow and Stinger: Developing the AC-119G/K Gunships in the Vietnam War

    William P. Head

    William P. Head
    Storms Over the Mekong

    William P. Head

    Tony Kern
    Foundations of Professional Airmanship and Flight Discipline

    Tony Kern

    Richard P. Lawless
    Nightstalkers: The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II

    Richard P. Lawless

    Scott McGaugh
    Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II

    Scott McGaugh

    Phillip Meilinger
    Into The Sun Novels of the United States Air Force

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    Thoughts on War

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    Airmen and Air Theory: A Review of the Sources

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    Significant Milestones in Air Force History

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    Limiting Risk in America's Wars: Airpower, Asymmetrics, and a New Strategic Paradigm (Transforming War Series)

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    Hubert R. Harmon: Airman, Officer, Father of the Air Force Academy

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    Airwar: Essays on its Theory and Practice

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the Life of a General

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    Airpower: Myths and Facts

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    10 Propositions Regarding Air Power

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip Meilinger
    Bomber: The Formation and Early Years of Strategic Air Command

    Phillip Meilinger

    Phillip S. Meilinger
    Speaking of War: Quotations On Conflict

    Phillip S. Meilinger

    Tyler Morton
    From Kites to Cold War: The Evolution of Manned Airborne Reconnaissance

    Tyler Morton

    Robert G. Novotny
    Tarmacs and Trenches: Life and Disappearance of Lt Gen Millard F. Harmon, Jr.

    Robert G. Novotny

    Ray O'Mara
    Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II

    Ray O’Mara

    W. Howard Plunkett
    All F-105 Thunderchief Losses Vol. II: 1967-1981

    W. Howard Plunkett

    W. Howard Plunkett
    All F-105 Thunderchief Losses Vol. I: 1955-1966

    W. Howard Plunkett

    W. Howard Plunkett
    F-105 Thunderchiefs: A 29 Year Illustrated Operational History

    W. Howard Plunkett

    W. Howard Plunkett and Jeff Kolln
    Fighting Cavaliers: The F-105 History of the 421st Tactical Fighter Squadron 1963-1967

    W. Howard Plunkett and Jeff Kolln

    W. Howard Plunkett
    Pack Six Blues: The Diary of an F-105 Thunderchief Pilot

    W. Howard Plunkett

    Wolfgang Samuel
    Coming to Colorado: A Young Immigrant's Journey to Become an American Flyer

    Wolfgang Samuel

    Wolfgang Samuel
    Flights From Fassberg: How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace

    Wolfgang Samuel

    Wolfgang Samuel
    Silent Warriors, Incredible Courage: The Declassified Stories of Cold War Reconnaissance Flights and the Men Who Flew Them

    Wolfgang Samuel

    Wolfgang Samuel
    American Raiders: The Race to Capture the Luftwaffe's Secrets

    Wolfgang Samuel

    Wolfgang Samuel
    In Defense of Freedom: Stories of Courage and Sacrifice of World War II Army Air Forces Flyers

    Wolfgang Samuel

    Wolfgang Samuel
    Watson's Whizzers: Operation Lusty and the Race for Nazi Aviation Technology

    Wolfgang Samuel

    Wolfgang Samuel
    Glory Days; The Untold Story of the Men Who Flew the B-66 Destroyer Into the Face of Fear

    Wolfgang Samuel

    Wolfgang Samuel
    I Always Wanted to Fly: America's Cold War Airmen

    Wolfgang Samuel

    John Slemp
    Bomber Boys: WWII Flight Jacket Art

    John Slemp

    Steve Snyder
    Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

    Steve Snyder

    Peter A. Swan
    Birth of Air Force Satellite Reconnaissance, Facts, Recollections and Reflections

    Peter A. Swan

    L. Parker Temple
    Implosion: Lessons From National Security, High Reliabliity Spacecraft, Electronics, and the Forces Which Changed Them

    L. Parker Temple

    L. Parker Temple
    Shades of Gray: National Security and the Evoltion of Space Reconnaissance

    L. Parker Temple

    David K. Vaughan
    Runway Visions: An American C-130 Pilot's Memoir of Combat Airlift Operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968

    David K. Vaughan

    David K. Vaughan
    Flying for the Air Service: The Hughes Brothers in World War I

    David K. Vaughan

    David K. Vaughan
    Letters From a War Bird: The World War I Correspondence of Elliot White Springs

    David K. Vaughan

    David K. Vaughan
    Flying Adventurers: Juvenile Aviation Series Books in America, 1909-1964

    David K. Vaughan

    David K. Vaughan
    An American Pilot in the Skies of France: The Diaries and Letters of an American Pilot, 1917-1918

    David K. Vaughan

    David K. Vaughan
    Words to Measure a War: Nine American Poets of World War II

    David K. Vaughan

    David K. Vaughan
    Solo Stages: A Recollection of Jet Pilot Training in the United States Air Force 1962-1963

    David K. Vaughan

    David K. Vaughan
    Worthy Son: The World War I Letters of Lieutenant Harold E. Loud, Pilot, 88th Aero Squadron, U.S. Air Service

    David K. Vaughan

    Mark C. Vlahos
    Men Will Come: A History of the 314th Troop Carrier Group

    Mark C. Vlahos

    Mark C. Vlahos
    Leading the Way to Victory

    Mark C. Vlahos

    Brian D. Vlaun
    Selling Schweinfurt: Targeting, Assessment, and Marketing in the Air Campaign Against German Industry

    Brian D. Vlaun

    Michael E. Weaver
    The Air War in Vietnam

    Michael E. Weaver

    Darrel Whitcomb
    Combat Search and Rescue in Desert Storm

    Darrel Whitcomb

    Darrel Whitcomb
    Call Sign - Dustoff: A History or US Army Aeromedical Evacuation From Conception to Hurricane Katrina

    Darrel Whitcomb

    Darrel Whitcomb
    On A Steel Horse I Ride: A History of the MH-53 Pave Low Helicopters in War and Peace

    Darrel Whitcomb

    Darrel Whitcomb
    Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America's War in Vietnam

    Darrel Whitcomb

    Darrel Whitcomb
    The Rescue of Bat 21

    Darrel Whitcomb

    Jan Churchill (ATP,CFII, USCGAUX) and Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)
    Delaware Aviation

    Jan Churchill (ATP,CFII, USCGAUX) and Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)

    Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)
    Dover Air Force Base

    Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)

    Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)
    Delaware Air National Guard

    Brig. Gen. Kennard R. Wiggins, Jr. (DE ANG Retired)

    Gary N. Willis
    Red Markers: The Rest of the Story

    Gary N. Willis

    Gary N. Willis
    Red Markers: Close Air Support for the Vietnamese Airborne, 1962 - 1975

    Gary N. Willis

    Kathy Wilson
    Marshall's Great Captain: Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews and Air Power in the World Wars

    Kathy Wilson